Worn Ground

Meet Eli Harwell

Quietly observant. Sixteen years old. Learning to read more than the land.

Eli has learned to read the rhythms of the land long before he understands the movements of his own heart.

As one Alabama summer unfolds, the fields around him begin revealing truths about family, suffering, grace, and the patient providence of God that will shape the rest of his life.

His story begins beside a pond...
where a heron comes every morning.